3rd Space unites with other Phoenix LGBTQ organizations to collaborate on a youth empowerment through art event with queer, homeless and undocumented youth

#11

last night

instead of sleeping

it was important

I tried to recount all the places I slept 

as a teenager

so I didn’t have to go home

Home was that hard for me then

Counting doorways and men’s beds like sheep

but not sweet

Like old doors creaking open

Foyers to apt buildings

Back seats

Under trees in the park.

Strung

So tight

the morning sun

would strum me

decades later

I still

can’t sleep

without drugs

and I never  ever

ever miss the dawn.

#7

risk what it is to say

this isn’t working for me.

 I need my life to change.

#6

risk

what is it to whisper

so softly

 we’re gonna get through this

 everything is gonna be ok

what it is in the daylight

risk hoping in the daylight

whispers for the night.